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Assembly Bill A173

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows livestock owners to directly purchase killed rabies vaccine for the purpose of vaccinating livestock owned by such livestock owner

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2023-A173 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add §89-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2165
2011-2012: A1383
2013-2014: A6796
2015-2016: A2524
2017-2018: A183
2019-2020: A1696
2021-2022: A1604
2025-2026: A1121

2023-A173 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows livestock owners to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions after two years; defines livestock for the purpose of this section.

2023-A173 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    173
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
   administration  of  rabies  vaccine to livestock and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
 section 89-a to read as follows:
   §  89-A.  ADMINISTRATION  OF  RABIES  VACCINE. (1) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
 OTHER SECTION OF LAW, ANY LIVESTOCK OWNER MAY DIRECTLY  PURCHASE  KILLED
 RABIES  VACCINE  FOR  THE SOLE PURPOSE OF VACCINATING LIVESTOCK OWNED BY
 SUCH LIVESTOCK OWNER. LIVESTOCK VACCINATED IN SUCH A MANNER WITHOUT  THE
 DIRECT  OR  SUPERVISORY  PARTICIPATION  OF  A  VETERINARIAN  WILL NOT BE
 CONSIDERED AS VACCINATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE DEPARTMENT  OF
 AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS,  OR ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT, AGENCY, OR AGENT OF
 THE STATE FOR THE PURPOSES OF MATTERS INVOLVING STATE ACTION  OR  POLICY
 TOWARDS LIVESTOCK, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, QUARANTINE IN THE CASE
 OF  A  RABIES  OUTBREAK  OR  LOCAL RABIES EMERGENCY, AND ELIGIBILITY FOR
 PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR OR ANY COUNTY OR LOCAL FAIR RUN
 BY ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  LIVESTOCK VACCI-
 NATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR INDEMNIFICATION
 FOR RABIES AS PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE SIX-A OF THIS  CHAPTER  IF  IT  IS
 DETERMINED  THAT  SUCH  VACCINATIONS,  CONDUCTED  WITHOUT  THE DIRECT OR
 SUPERVISORY PARTICIPATION OF A VETERINARIAN, CONTRIBUTED TO THE  DAMAGES
 TO THE ANIMAL.
   (2)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION, THE TERM "LIVESTOCK" SHALL MEAN
 CATTLE AND HORSES AND ANY SPECIES OF LIVESTOCK THAT ARE INDICATED ON THE
 VACCINE LABEL OR PACKAGE INSERT. THE TERM  "LIVESTOCK"  SHALL  NOT  MEAN
 DOGS  AND  CATS.  ALL  KILLED  RABIES  VACCINES  MUST BE ADMINISTERED IN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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